Electric power-systems are one of the most important critical infrastructures. In recent years, they have been exposed to extreme stress due to the increasing demand, the introduction of distributed renewable energy sources, ...

Environmental factors, such as weather, trees, and animals, are major causes of power outages in electric utility distribution systems. Of these factors, wind and lightning have the most significant impacts. The objective ...

In power system reconfiguration, the status (ON/OFF) of switches are optimized such that maximum power is delivered to loads after the occurrence of a fault. The optimized
reconfiguration is achieved by prioritizing power ...

Fairness is an important management issue for
peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In this paper, we study the
credit system of the P2P file sharing network eMule
(http://www.emule-project.net) through a simple queueing
network ...

In this paper, we study the performance of a decentralized sensor network in the presence of correlated additive Gaussian noise. We propose a parallel genetic algorithm approach to simultaneously optimize both the fusion ...

In this paper, we present a novel multiuser detection (MUD) technique based on ant colony optimization (ACO), for synchronous multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) systems. ACO algorithms are based on the ...

Emergency ratings have been introduced for operating transmission lines safely and supplying current capacity efficiently, as well as controlling load flow when occurring line faults. In this paper, short-term emergency ...

A method is proposed to utilize dynamic line rating (DLR) system on old transmission lines to up-rate ampacity without replacing old conductors or increasing line voltage. A
DLR system applicable to double-circuit ...

This paper extends previous research on using a Bayesian network model to investigate impacts of time (month) and weather (number of fair weather days in a week) on animal-related outages in distribution systems. Outage ...

Networks are characterized by a variety of topological features and dynamics. Classifying nodes into communities, community structure, is important when exploring networks. This paper explores the community detection metric ...

Near-term consumption of groundwater for irrigated agriculture in the High Plains Aquifer supports a dynamic bio-socio-economic system, all parts of which will be impacted by a future transition to sustainable usage that ...

The future Internet will require the transport of a wide range of services including high bandwidth one-to-many applications, with a dynamic interconnection of devices. WDM layer support realizes such services in a ...

Containing an epidemic at its origin is the most desirable mitigation. Epidemics have often originated in rural areas, with rural communities among the first affected. Disease dynamics in rural regions have received limited ...

Wearable and everyday-carry medical devices can improve quality of life for individuals that need frequent health monitoring. Such tools can supplement ubiquitous home care environments populated with medical sensors, ...

Rift Valley fever is a vector-borne zoonotic disease which causes high morbidity and mortality in livestock. In the event Rift Valley fever virus is introduced to the United States or other non-endemic areas, understanding ...

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) will take on more diverse forms in terms of their sensor combinations and communication protocols as their presence is extended to a
greater number of monitoring scenarios. This paper ...

The commonly used Distributed Generations (DG) technologies include wind generators, photovoltaics, and biomass generators with their sizes varying between several kW to a few MW. Energy storage devices are generally used ...

Various epidemics have arisen in rural locations through human-animal interaction, such as the H1N1 outbreak of 2009. Through collaboration with local government officials, we have surveyed a rural county and its communities ...